Monday 21 May 2012

Strange poem

I knew the first verse but I didn't know the others.

If All the World Were Paper

"If all the world were paper
And all the sea were ink,
If all the trees were bread and cheese
What would we do for drink?

If all the world were sand O,
Oh then what should we lack O,
if as they say there were no clay
How should we take Tobacco?

If all our vessels ran-a,
If none but had a crack-a,
If Spanish apes ate all the grapes
How should we do for sack-a?

If all the world were men
And men lived all in trenches,
And there were none but we alone,
How should we do for wenches?

If friars had no bald pates
Nor nuns had no dark cloisters,
If all the seas were beans and peas
How should we do for oysters?

If there had been no projects
Nor none that did great wrongs,
If fiddlers shall turn players all
How should we do for songs?

If all things were eternal
And nothing their end bringing,
If this should be, then how should we
Here make an end of singing? 
Anonymous Americas
 Strange poem and does Anonymous Americas means the poet, who we don't know the name of, came from the Americas?

3 comments:

  1. I've never heard that poem before. Very strange.

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  2. I just knew bits of it as an old nursery rhyme. I think the back of my head was thinking Spike Milligan, but obviously not!

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  3. I have never seen that poem before, thanks for sharing x

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